Improvement in clothes-driers



eminem.

JOSEPH L, BRIGHAM, or Sfr. PAUL,y MINNESOTA.

Letters Patent No. 110,952,'da.ted Jennery 17, 1871.

IMPROVEMENT IN CLOTH-E-S-DRIERS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent malidng part of the same.

I, JOSEPH L. BRIGHAM, of St. Paul,- in the county of Ramsey and State of Minnesota, haveinvented certain Improvements inAppmatus for Drying and Airing Fabrics, Fruits, 86o., of which the following is :L speciiicirtion.

Figure 1 is zvperspective view fof my invention, and

Figure 2, :i side elevation of the snnie folded.

.The object of this invention is to provide al convenient clothes-drier, which may he used either in orout of doors, folded into small compass when not in operation, and readily adjusted for use; and

It consists, mainly, of o. series of drying-frames, hinged or pivoted together, and. also hinged to the ivall of n building or room, 4:is will hereinafter more fully appear.

A B C represent frames, which :tre composed of end pieces and cross-bars, is shown. u

rlhe lower ends of frame A are hinged to the wall A, while the upper ends of the sume are pivoted to thelowcr end of frame Bvbyineuns of the bnr D. Thenpper ends offralne B :ire hinged to the frame drier, `sind one in which economy of space :ind a. lnrge extent of drying-room are combined.

Having thus fully described my invention,

, What I clnini :is new, 4:ind desire to secure'by i The described arrangement oi frznnes A B G, cords H H, and hook L'substzintinlly as und for the purpose set forth. A

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specication in the presence of two subscribing" witnesses.

Witnesses: JOSEPH L BRiGHAM.

ERAsTUs F. BRIGHAM. WILLIAM PAIsT. i 

